New member, old boat

[AngrySailor]

Digging the old Yammi! The boats and motors are pretty cool too!

She’s swapped with a red head 700 triple. Scoots pretty good on the flat/hard pack snow and ice. I’ve had it over 100mph and didn’t find the end of it before running out of frozen river! Heading over to buddys shop today to yank the boat engine and V drive. Got material for my set back plate and was talking to an old pro-mod racer friend of mine. He gave me some advice on restripping the 14-71, said I’ll have no problem doing it here myself. He used to strip his own blowers all the time. Guess I’ll source some gears, bearings, seals and 1/4” half round Teflon next.

 

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Two bolts left holding the engine, V drive out, back at my shop getting a forklift out of hibernation to lift it out.

 

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It’s a production just to get the darn thing back in the barn... little forklift was stuck solid too. Can’t wait for our two months of summer...

 

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Boats in the barn, V drive in on my shop floor, the little 4-fiddy-4 is in the workshop and as good as sold (just gotta inspect and pull the marine parts off as it’s going in a ‘65 chev c30 lol). them Teflon strips pull out like butter, feeling way better about rebuilding this blower here. Just gotta check I don’t have a bent rotor... if I do it’s not much, measuring less than 0.005” runout at the gears so far.

 

[AngrySailor]

Working on the set back plate today. Awful tight running a mag trigger distributor under a big blower... I kinda wanted to avoid a crank trigger for this build.

 

[AngrySailor]

Only five months to summer.

 

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V-drive all apart. Paging JJ!!! JJ line 1! Ready for rebuild parts, prop release and gears for this puppy soon.

Had the snowmobile out all day Saturday. Wiped out on the ice at over 100mph, my head kept the sled and ice from getting hurt. I got a good bruise around my neck from the helmet strap and the rest of me is pretty darn sore. Had to ride home about 50 miles after the spill I took. Wasn’t too much fun, been recovering in the house (bed mostly) last few days...

 

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Anyone got a parts breakdown on the Cassale split boxes? I’ve never had this one this far apart and I swear it’s missing a collar between the back top bearing and the top gear! The gear was just bottomed out on the shaft splines which doesn’t seem right. This box ran super quiet and cool, gear patter looks correct. All I’ve ever done to it was replace the front lower bearing and change the oil... I don’t think I’ve ever slid the upper gear off the shaft but it’s been 20 years since I have had the front case off to change that bearing...

 

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[AngrySailor]

Thanks. Looks like only one spacer collar on the top gear is correct. It’s definitely causing some wear on the spline shoulder though. Seems correct by that breakdown though. Thanks.

 

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Sorry it's so blurry u can look it up...

 

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Well I got the call to return to the ship, party is over for a bit... I’ll be flying out on the weekend weather permitting as we’re in for a big storm here. Going to be a busy trip, the ship is laid up and heading to dry dock for the month of March. I got a 24,000hr rebuild to do on a 1050Kw wärtsila generator set. It’s a fair size 6cyl heavy fuel engine. Gotta do cylinder heads, pistons, liners, con rods and main/rod bearings, rebuild injectors and fuel pumps too, turbo, aftercooler, all the auxiliary pumps... Fair bit of work and it’s all day work with office dicks/transport Canada/US coast guard and insurance dicks running around as it’s our 5 year inspection/recertification... joy...

 

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Bolt patterns all drilled, tapped and counter bored in the set back plate. Pretty snug for the distributor...

 

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Hmm, though I had about an extra 0.3xx” to drop the distributor down cuz it’s a tall deck block but I just checked my short deck blower manifold against the tall deck manifold and it looks like someone’s already machined the distributor seat to allow use of a short deck distributor on a tall deck… I was going to machine the collar off this distributor and put a slip collar on, I still might just to dial in the gear pattern but I won’t gain that 5/16” clearance under the blower/set back plate.

Some idiot on YouTube doesn’t think I can rebuild this blower lol.

 

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Undercut the back of the set back plate 1/2” deep, there’s room for plug wires and and decent sweep for timing adjustment now. Just have to profile the front of the plate and radius some corners to pretty it up, I’m not going to machine the blower discharge opening until I return from work, that way it will act as a block off plate to keep any dirt or shit out of the engine. I’m heading out Tuesday for 6 weeks, as I’m leaving it the long block is all assembled, still waiting on my oil pan from Armando’s, blower parts are in the works. Should be up and running not long after I return from work in April.

 

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Hmm, though I had about an extra 0.3xx” to drop the distributor down cuz it’s a tall deck block but I just checked my short deck blower manifold against the tall deck manifold and it looks like someone’s already machined the distributor seat to allow use of a short deck distributor on a tall deck… I was going to machine the collar off this distributor and put a slip collar on, I still might just to dial in the gear pattern but I won’t gain that 5/16” clearance under the blower/set back plate.

Some idiot on YouTube doesn’t think I can rebuild this blower lol.

THEY BOTH USE THE SAME DISTRIBUTOR. I WORKED IN A TRUCK SHOP AND WORKED ON A TON OF 427 FARM TRUCKS.

 

[AngrySailor]

THEY BOTH USE THE SAME DISTRIBUTOR. I WORKED IN A TRUCK SHOP AND WORKED ON A TON OF 427 FARM TRUCKS.

Huh, I’ve worked a couple of them GM 366/427 talk decks but never exchanged the distributor, also don’t have a factory manifold or distributor kicking around from one either to compare. Not doubting you but They list “tall deck” distributors online so I figured the collar distance was the difference but they were the same otherwise? It will fit but it’s snug! I’ll blue the pattern in on the gears to make sure it’s running in the middle and can put a slip collar if it needs any tweaking. The last farm truck I worked on many years ago came in for a “miss”, the “seasonal workers” had a tendency to downshift about 8 gears in one shot and it had a rod hanging out the side. Buddy drove it away when I told him he needed a new engine…

 

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Back to work, 24,000hr overhaul on this 1050Kw generator set.

 

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Liners, rods and pistons installed, heads set on have to hydraulically tension their studs next then I’ll install the new turbocharger tomorrow while the oiler cleans the crankcase sump. After that I’ll install all the jewelry like injectors and rocker gear. They want this running on Sunday… Sheiit…

 

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Got my pan from Armando’s. Got a shit show with this generator engine… one of our assistants labeled a piston wrong, there’s only a tiny mark that indicates orientation and we all missed the mistake on assembly. I could not feel any contact piston to valve as I turned the engine over with the barring gear to set the valves as its mass and alternator mass is so heavy you’d never feel a light touch. I started the engine and immediately shut it down due to a noise/knock. I was overridden by the chief and 2nd and they ran the engine for almost 40 mins against my protest and it blew up. Big investigation, I was interviewed for 2 1/2 hours by the office technical engineer lol. Anyways I’m gold because I had everything logged and data logged by the computer monitoring system, had firm answers as to what exactly happened, how, and the timeline, documented my protest. Anyways pretty sure the 2nd is going to hang as there is a cool half million in damages. Wrecked a brand new $100k turbo, debris all through the engine. I’m pulling it down last couple weeks cleaning oil galleries and behind the main bearing shells now. I told them they were going to turn a little problem into a big one and boy did they ever. We could have pulled the piston, oriented it the right way and installed our spare head while the other was serviced and we would have been good for $300 gaskets and a few hours labor but now it’s a mess… can’t wait to get out of here and back to my shop.

 

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Looks like I’m picking up a set of 29% gears too

 

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Been inspecting main bearings on this generator engine, the guys are cleaning all the parts as we go, found the busted valve head in the scavenge trunk. Couple weeks left of this BS then heading back to my shop get this blower rebuilt and hopefully fire up that 598 while I’m home.

 

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29’s in the mail! Thanks JJ!